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Re: Apple Readies MacBook Pro, MacBook Air Revamps

#11

So they used to sell 15" and 17" laptops and got rid of the 17", now they're selling 14" and 16", I wonder why?

Isn't part of it that there's basically no bezel on the 14 and 16 models? I know Apple minimized that over the years it really is essentially zero now. I haven't checked but I wouldn't be surprised if the footprint of a 16" MBP is actually smaller than most 15.6" (or are they 15.4"?) non-Apple laptops.

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post #2

"Company developing Mac Pro desktop with 40 cores, new Mac mini" It will be interesting to see how close the rumors are to fact when real hardware announcements happen. Given how fast the M1 in the MacBook Air is performing for tasks like video editing I wonder if they will really need to push to such extremes as putting 40 cores in a Mac Pro -- unless they plan to edit four 8K streams at once?

There are plenty of editors who would love to be able to edit 4 8K (or 12K!) streams in real time :)

I still deal with 1080p and get annoyed at my hardware's limitations. If I could justify a Mac Pro and Apple's accelerator card, I'd get them in a heartbeat.

For certain applications, no matter how good the hardware you have is, there's always a desire for more, faster hardware.

Re: Apple Readies MacBook Pro, MacBook Air Revamps

#14

So they used to sell 15" and 17" laptops and got rid of the 17", now they're selling 14" and 16", I wonder why?

I think since they've managed to minimize the screen bezel, they can fit a 14" screen in the body of an older 13" and a 16" in the body of an older 15"?

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#15
post #7

> Apple last fall started replacing Intel processors in the iPhone and iPad with the house-designed M1 chips, which eat less power and let the mobile devices run the same apps as Macs. Say what now?

They mean phones and Macs now both run ARM chips... Doesn't mean same apps of course.

Actually the part about the same apps is true https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/install-any-ios-app-m1-mac/

The problematic part of that quote is where it claims that iPhones and iPads used to have Intel processors.

Re: Apple Readies MacBook Pro, MacBook Air Revamps

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post #11

So they used to sell 15" and 17" laptops and got rid of the 17", now they're selling 14" and 16", I wonder why?

Isn't part of it that there's basically no bezel on the 14 and 16 models? I know Apple minimized that over the years it really is essentially zero now. I haven't checked but I wouldn't be surprised if the footprint of a 16" MBP is actually smaller than most 15.6" (or are they 15.4"?) non-Apple laptops.

I believe that's the correct answer.

However I still wish they'd be able to get the bezel down to the size of an XPS 13

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post #7

> Apple last fall started replacing Intel processors in the iPhone and iPad with the house-designed M1 chips, which eat less power and let the mobile devices run the same apps as Macs. Say what now?

They mean phones and Macs now both run ARM chips... Doesn't mean same apps of course.

Just not a mistake by any IT guys I supposed.

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post #16
post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't part of it that there's basically no bezel on the 14 and 16 models? I know Apple minimized that over the years it really is essentially zero now. I haven't checked but I wouldn't be surprised if the footprint of a 16" MBP is actually smaller than most 15.6" (or are they 15.4"?) non-Apple laptops.

I believe that's the correct answer. However I still wish they'd be able to get the bezel down to the size of an XPS 13

Doesn't the XPS have the weird webcam position?

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post #9
post #2

"Company developing Mac Pro desktop with 40 cores, new Mac mini" It will be interesting to see how close the rumors are to fact when real hardware announcements happen. Given how fast the M1 in the MacBook Air is performing for tasks like video editing I wonder if they will really need to push to such extremes as putting 40 cores in a Mac Pro -- unless they plan to edit four 8K streams at once?

40 cores isn't extreme. "Titan S375 - Dual AMD EPYC Rome 7002 Series - Scientific Research Server PC up to 128 cores" https://www.titancomputers.com/Titan-S375-Dual-AMD-EPYC-Rome...

The key part there being "scientific research server." The Amazon Graviton2 ARM chips have something like 64 cores but that makes sense for machines that are powering AWS. Unless the point of these Mac pros is to be at supercomputer speeds or to pack massive specs like VM packs a Bughatti Veyron (because we can) I don't see much of a point beyond the highest of high end video editing and scientific research.

Re: Apple Readies MacBook Pro, MacBook Air Revamps

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post #18
post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe that's the correct answer. However I still wish they'd be able to get the bezel down to the size of an XPS 13

Doesn't the XPS have the weird webcam position?

My work-issued XPS has a normal webcam position... but I cannot speak to models before or after this one.
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